Russia Hopes To Build Mir-2
By Jim Heintz
Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 13, 2001; 1:22 p.m. EDT
MOSCOW 末 Russia intends to launch a successor to the
recently dumped Mir space station and is seeking
participation from other countries in the project,
Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said Friday
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rk We're taking work out of the
stellar engineering, ltd. bureaucratic jobs and putting them
stel...@erols.com.NOSPAM into hardware. I think a NASA
Hi-Rel Digital Systems Design employee would rather be cutting
hardware than writing reports and
doing studies. D. Goldin, June 1992
"This will not be Russia's alone,"
Klebanov didn't say what countries Russia would invite to take part.
Gee--- I wonder who that may be?
US, of course. In any case, Russia should go the next step. An LEO
station is boring. They've done that. They should go to the Moon.
Imagine the Russians with a permanent Moonbase and the US with a
permanent LEO station. It's the reverse of 30 years ago and it should be
embarrassing to the Americans.
>US, of course. In any case, Russia should go the next step. An LEO
>station is boring. They've done that. They should go to the Moon.
>Imagine the Russians with a permanent Moonbase and the US with a
>permanent LEO station. It's the reverse of 30 years ago and it should be
>embarrassing to the Americans.
Well, yeah that would be embarrassing to the Americans. Of course, the
odds of that happening are close to one in a billion.
Brian
Contrast to odds of Mir-2.